Gates may not have said the 640k thing, but Microsoft did say:
"Each 32-bit application can access up to 2 GB of addressable memory space, which is large enough to support even the largest desktop application." -- Microsoft Windows 98 training kit.

Are you familiar with this quote? 640K [of computer memory] ought to be enough for anybody. — Bill Gates It's amusing, but Bill Gates never actually said that: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amou...